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In the living room, Frederick and his family were accompanied, and Sergei, who had just finished visiting the imperial palace, was chatting.

Although Sergei's gaze always drifted to Princess Elizabeth's direction unconsciously, when the three waiters put the kettle in their hands on the coffee table in front of everyone, the three kettles pulled his gaze back from Elizabeth's body.

On the far left is a silver, oval-bottomed kettle that looks like a silver grapefruit, with a dark gold pattern on the surface of the kettle, and a handle made of white rattan.

The kettle in the middle is composed of two groups of golden octahedrons, the shape is extremely similar to gemstones, a golden gem, the golden body of the octahedron is densely covered with small and staggered pits, and it looks like a piece of golden leather full of pores and breathing, and then looks like the skin of a grapefruit.

Like the grapefruit-shaped silver kettle on the left, the handle is made of rattan, except that the golden jewel-shaped jug is made of golden rattan.

The pot on the far right is still golden, but the body is not jewel-shaped, but is made into a straight hexahedron, like a Chinese-style lantern, the body of the pot is engraved with some oriental patterns and lines, with a golden handle, this kettle exudes an irresistible oriental beauty.

In the handle on the lid, the silver jug is inlaid with a transparent crystal, while the two golden jugs are inlaid with obsidian.

Just when Grand Duke Sergei was confused about the intentions of these three pots, the waiter standing next to him asked softly, "Sir, do you need Chinese Qimen black tea, fruit flower tea, or coffee?" ”

After confirming that Grand Duke Sergei wanted coffee, the waiter lifted the kettle in the shape of a gold and jewel, poured a cup of fragrant pot coffee, and then delivered a cup of coffee to Grand Duke Sergei on a tray.

After Frederick and his wife confirmed what they wanted to drink, Grand Duke Sergei watched with wide eyes as the waiter poured fruit flower tea for Crown Princess Victoria from a pot in the shape of a silver grapefruit, and Chinese Keemun black tea for Crown Prince Frederick from a golden Chinese lantern kettle.

Looking at the Grand Duke Sergei with a surprised face, William would never let go of the blow to his rival, plus any opportunity to show off, his indifferent tone was mixed with a little excitement, and explained to Sergei, "Dear Aleksandrovich, you must know that the best drinking temperature of Chinese Keemun black tea, fruit flower tea and coffee, these three are very particular. ”

"Scientists at the University of Berlin have studied for a long time that the taste of a drink is closely related to the temperature of the water. Taking Chinese black tea as an example, when the temperature is maintained at 85 degrees, the fresh and sweet taste of Qimen black tea can be reflected, and the temperature is too high or too low, which will seriously damage this taste. ”

"The best drinking temperature for fruit flower tea is 50 degrees, and only this temperature will not destroy the aromatic taste of fruit flower tea, so that the tea aroma and fruit aroma complement each other."

"As for the coffee, it has to be boiled at 100 degrees, and only the constant boiling can bring out the oiliness and aroma of this La Esmera coffee produced in the high mountains of South America."

"These three kettles use electricity to set the water temperature accurately, so each kettle corresponds to a different drink. A delicate coffee break starts with the exact water temperature. William cocked his horn mustache and concluded proudly.

The above paragraph, which stunned Grand Duke Sergei, was not what William wanted to come up with, but actually what Joey said when he showed these three electric kettles a few days ago.

But today, it was said by William, and it was indeed more imposing.

But I have to say that such hypocritical words are indeed in line with the aristocratic plot that values delicacy and cumbersomeness.

For example, what kind of coffee to drink, where it is produced, what year it is produced, what season it is picked, what coffee cup to go with, what kind of coffee saucer to go with, what style of spoon to use, how much sugar to put in, sugar cube or brown sugar...., as long as a nobleman is willing, he can find out countless details for you.

In the nineteenth century, there were only a handful of entertainment, and even if a nobleman was short of money, in most cases, they would rather go to loan sharks than lower their bodies to work, so the nobles had a lot of time to spend on recreation, and the most important pastime was the pursuit of the quality of life, and the beauty that only the nobles could find in some small details.

If you look at the pastimes of the 19th-century aristocracy, you will find that they were able to hold several parties in quick succession for a cat of different colors.

So Joey is going to let this electric kettle, by the way, take the different porcelains of the famous German ceramic industry, and let the aristocrats in Europe hold many parties to discuss what electric kettle should be paired with what German porcelain, with which German sugar cube or brown sugar, and what drink is produced there, that year, and what drinks.

Joy's set of kettles includes three types of jugs, two lids, two different handles, and three base variations, which can form a total of 36 styles of jugs. The most important thing is that the production volume of each of these 36 kinds of changing kettles is still different, some of them are very ordinary, but some are very few and rare, and there are even a few epic ones, if you want to make up these 36 changes in your lifetime, wait slowly.

Usually people buy at most an electric kettle for home use, but a nobleman wants to pursue a kettle with 36 variations, and Joey is happy when he thinks about it. What's more, the bottom of the pot has a fancy signature of Mr. Peter Behrens, as well as the product number, the exquisite and unusual packaging box and customer maintenance card, all of which reflect the particularity of each set of pots.

Joey is selling a kettle for boiling water according to the routine of selling luxury goods.

As for ordinary people, Joey has already thought about it, there is no gold and silver, only a unified stainless steel color, the appearance has neither patterns nor decorations, everything returns to the original intention of Mr. Behrens's design, practicality is the eternal theme of industrial design, simplicity is beauty.

Just when the handsome Sergei was chatting with the crown prince and his wife with or without a match, he was still thinking about whether to wait to try the Chinese Keemun black tea and fruit flower tea, and see if it was as William claimed, this magical kettle could show the advantages of different drinks, Joey's famous cold drinks: Coca-Cola and Sprite came.

Drinking coffee and tea on a hot day, Joey is hot when he thinks about it, in fact, except for old-fashioned and traditional people like the crown prince and his wife, the young people present, including Joey's two precious sisters, are waiting for Joey's drink. Since drinking it the other day, there hasn't been a young man who doesn't like these two summer specials.

Now a tuxedo and white-gloved waiter fiddling with the preliminary work of drinking Coke and Sprite is indeed more formal than Joey's performance in Mr. Stockch's office half a month earlier. The children of the Imperial Palace were already familiar with this, but Sergei, who saw this scene for the first time, had the same expression as Mr. Storsch at that time, from confusion to surprise.

At the instigation of the children of the Imperial Palace, and with the encouragement of Frederick and his wife, whether it was the refreshing Coca-Cola or the sweet and fragrant Sprite, they completely conquered Grand Duke Sergei.

At Joey's suggestion, a waiter walked to a corner of the living room, and with a white-gloved hand, he gently opened the piano lacquered black cabinet, first pushed open the lid on the top of the cabinet, and then pulled out a black disc from the compartment in the cabinet, and gently put the disc on a black machine that had opened the top cover, and then gently shook a copper handle on the side of the cabinet, and after shaking it a few times, finally put a silver-white metal crank on the disc gently.

In an instant, a song of the blue Danube of Johann Strauss Jr. flowed out so inadvertently.

This piece of music flowing from the living room also attracted the guests around, everyone knew that tonight's palace was just a dinner party, and there was no ball, how could there be a beautiful waltz that only a band could play, which surprised many people.

It was still William's performance moment, looking at the crowd attracted by this magical cabinet, William still introduced to Grand Duke Sergei in a reserved and proud tone, "Dear Aleksandrovich, what you hear now is the wonderful sound of the gramophone invented by Mr. Emile Bellina, this cabinet phonograph is specially intended for families. Later at the youth party I invite you to, you will also see another one, the box portable gramophone. ”

In the praise of everyone, only the Siemens brothers looked at the singing cabinet, looked at each other silently, and understood from the smiles in each other's eyes that the Siemens brand phonograph produced by them was about to sell well.